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Nostalgia & History > The NWP in Willits, August 1966Date: 09/29/06 00:45 The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: drew1946 A walk around the NWP roundhouse and yard in Willits, August 1966
The Willits Freight House SP RDC #10 Ready to head North to Eureka NWP Caboose #35    Date: 09/29/06 00:49 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: drew1946 The Willits Roundhouse with (from left) SD7's 2712, 2713, 2701, and 2720
Sand House The turntable out back of the roundhouse    Date: 09/29/06 00:51 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: drew1946 Turntable and back of the roundhouse
 Date: 09/29/06 04:11 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: danf Interersting pictures. I'm guessing there's no round house, sand house, freight house or anything like that left at Willits.
Date: 09/29/06 06:04 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: tolland Prior to asking my question, keep in mind that I know very little about the Northwestern Pacific. What year did the NWP become a separate entity from the SP? Thanks for your reply.
Jim Burrill Loveland, CO Date: 09/29/06 06:19 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: dmaffei tolland Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Prior to asking my question, keep in mind that I > know very little about the Northwestern Pacific. > What year did the NWP become a separate entity > from the SP? Thanks for your reply. > > Jim Burrill > Loveland, CO Hope this helps Jim: http://www.nwprrhs.org/history.htm Drew As Always great stuff. Your photo collection continues to blow me away! Dave Date: 09/29/06 06:20 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: WAF It was a subsidary of the SP, but lost divisional seperation in 1981 when it became part of the SP's Western Division
Date: 09/29/06 06:28 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: Nitehostler Just great Drew...you & John West are the only ones that I have seen color photos from of the Willits Roundhouse. Now, if you could just find your slides from Labor Day Weekend of 1971!
Tom Date: 09/29/06 07:28 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: MrOGDEN Drew,
Thanks for sharing! These are the type of pictures I live for! Do you have any more? Thanks, Brad Date: 09/29/06 08:04 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: TonyJ Great shots Drew. Most of the buildings were already gone by the time I first got threre. - Tony J.
Date: 09/29/06 08:06 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: JMaurer1 I heartily agree with MrODGEN. Those are the kind of pictures I come to this site for.
No, the 'roundhouse', turntable, and freight house are long gone memories. The yard is almost completely empty (except for some of the old North Coast Daylight passenger cars and other misc stored cars). The redwood depot is intact and used by the Cal Western, but the NWP line is out of service. Date: 09/29/06 08:56 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: switchlamp Drew; As usual, your photos are one of the reasons I joined Trainorders. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Why was the turntable behind the roundhouse intead of in front of the stalls? Thanks!
Date: 09/29/06 09:56 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: spnudge Back then, most of the SDs on the NWP had those big can Mars lights and those stack covers over the exhaust. You can see the DB cable along with the regular MU cable. They didn't start removing the "Loop" systems until the early 70s.
Nudge Date: 09/29/06 10:09 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: roustabout You don't happen to have a better shot of the 2701 (which must be the one inside the house)? It lives on as Willamette & Pacific 1501, power for the Albany yard job.
Thank you again for sharing your photos! Date: 09/29/06 10:12 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: TCnR Wow, explains all those piles of sand that were all that was left by the time I got there. Did see them storing power there in the late 70's. No clue those buildings were there.
Date: 09/29/06 10:27 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: WAF Power was split between SD-7s and SD-9s in the sixties. Didn't become full SD-9s until the early seventies.
Date: 09/29/06 11:37 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: BCHellman spnudge Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Back then, most of the SDs on the NWP had those > big can Mars lights If I'm not mistaken, none of the SD-7s (or SD-9s) rebuilds retained the big can Mars and in fact some had them removed prior to rebuilding (I guess when they were more or less assigned to yard duty). The question I have was how late could one expect to see a serviceable can Mars light? Date: 09/29/06 12:22 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: joemagruder Wasn't the NWP originally jointly owned by the AT&SF and the SP?
Date: 09/29/06 15:34 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: WAF 2742 retained its big headlight until it was rebuilt as 1442 in the mid seventies. There might have been one more.
Date: 09/29/06 16:25 Re: The NWP in Willits, August 1966 Author: TCnR WAF Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 2742 retained its big headlight until it was > rebuilt as 1442 in the mid seventies. There might > have been one more. Remember seeing an ash can going around the wye at Newark in the mid-70's, thought it was attached to an SD-7 but that would be an undocumented sighting. SF to Oakland freight, mid afternoon. |